OUTWARDLY Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

outwardly

adverb

Definition of outwardly

as in externally

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Recent Examples of outwardly Many people may feel hesitant to be themselves, while outwardly searching for a deeper connection. — Ethan M. Stone, USA Today, 20 July 2026 Outside of his mechanical knowledge and appreciation for the robots, Wyatt wanted to display his love for them outwardly and began begging his mom for Roomba and robot vacuum everything. — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026 His dad, Rick Brunson, a former player who now works as a Knicks assistant coach, seemed markedly more excited, at least outwardly, to be there. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 June 2026 Other candidates, Othman said, were not as outwardly against Israel’s war with Hamas. — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for outwardly

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The strategy can be autonomous relative to the human's moment-to-moment control while the objective remains externally imposed.

— Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
North Korea has previously described the 600 mm system, known externally as the KN-25, as being able to deliver tactical nuclear warheads.

— Joyce Lee, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of externally

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And a winning streak that began in the Iowa cornstalks and — seemingly against all odds — continued for nine games, ended with a 9-2 Phillies loss in Seattle.

— Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Shein, which built its empire—seemingly overnight—on $5 tops and $10 dresses that cannily kept pace with rapidly shifting trends, did not respond to a request for comment.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of seemingly

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Rant Straw apparently took issue with the criticism and responded to Seixeiro directly on social media.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The apparently illusory swings show the difficulty of accurately counting homeless people in the expanse of north Los Angeles County.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of apparently

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His predictions mostly involved preaching to the AI evangelist choir, and his fervor for the tech evidently led him to throw caution to the winds of Wall Street.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
It was evidently lost amid the flood of congratulatory messages that arrived on campus that day, and Calhoun didn’t remember it.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of evidently

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Much of its aid has come in unsigned rulings on the emergency docket—ostensibly temporary and non-precedent-setting judgments that nevertheless carry serious consequences.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
The arrests, ostensibly for bribery, have sent a stark warning to Gazprom and the entire oil and gas industry, which faces a growing crisis of production and distribution as a result of war disruptions.

— Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of ostensibly

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Yet behind the spectacle, the biggest symbols of their supposedly limitless riches were a facade to make their lives appear better than reality, according to the brothers’ own lawyers.

— Jonny Hallam, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
The company’s Archewell production also maintains offices in Los Angeles, and staff are supposedly still there, trying to develop film and TV shows that Meghan and Harry could attach themselves to as producers.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of supposedly

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Miller has long been concerned with some of the actions taken after 9/11, putatively in her name, against Muslims in general.

— Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
The eight-story glass building at the center of the complex, which had putatively been devoted to vaccine manufacturing, was in fact a highly classified defense facility.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

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